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# Time to End Affirmative Action? *Fisher v. University of Texas*

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Date and Time 

October 9, 2012 12 - 1 PM EDT 

Location 

Hayek Auditorium 

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Featuring authors **Richard H. Sander**, UCLA School of Law and co-author of *Mismatch*; and **Stuart Taylor, Jr.**, Brookings Institution and co-author of *Mismatch*; with comments by **Roger Clegg**, Center for Equal Opportunity; and **Alan Morrison**, George Washington University School of Law; moderated by **Roger Pilon**, Cato Institute. 

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Just as the Supreme Court takes up another university affirmative action case for the first time since its “split decision” in the controversial University of Michigan cases in 2003, a new book comes out, *Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It*. Through detailed empirical research, the authors document the mismatch between schools and students, the effects on the students and the professions they had hoped to enter, and what needs to be done to better address the goals of affirmative action, consistent with the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the rule of law. Please join us, one day before oral argument in *Fisher v. University of Texas*, for a discussion of the book, the case, and the broader questions surrounding our 40-year experiment with affirmative action.